GNU bug report logs - #1702
feature request: correctly display single file zip archive

Previous Next

Full log

Message #48 received at 1702 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Matthew Leach <matthew <at> mattleach.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: xah <at> xahlee.org, 1702 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, cyd <at> stupidchicken.com
Subject: Re: bug#1702: [PATCH]: feature request: correctly display single file
 zip	archive
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 20:50:21 +0000

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Matthew Leach <matthew <at> mattleach.net>
>> Cc: xah <at> xahlee.org,  1702 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  cyd <at> stupidchicken.com
>> Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 20:03:32 +0000
>> 
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
>> 
>> >> From: Matthew Leach <matthew <at> mattleach.net>
>> >> Cc: xah <at> xahlee.org,  1702 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  cyd <at> stupidchicken.com
>> >> Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 19:26:13 +0000
>> >> 
>> >> I think the advantage gained here is transparent editing of compressed
>> >> files, like how Emacs can read .el.gz files without having to manually
>> >> decompress them first.
>> >
>> > This won't work without a suitable change to jka-compr.el.
>> 
>> Could you please elaborate on what kind of change would be needed?
>
> Do we want to disable decompression when auto-compression-mode is off,
> for example?

I think in the case that the user has auto-compression-mode off, the
archive summary should be shown instead.
-- 
Matt

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.